Flynn 11 y/o Foxie Cross - Right adrenalectomy- Good Bye Flynny We will miss you

Wow ack I hate having words with anyone at work, but it has to be done so good for you!! Will she be under you once you are all trained up? Wow I hope you get a payrise for all that extra work!! Still a bit early to be asking that when you only been there a week! :D

Flynny is outside on the line eating a frozen lamb brisket, his teeth and gums have been worrying me, I also got some fluid stuff you put in their water that helps too. He clenches his teeth so hard when I try brush them it's lucky if I get a bit of a skim down the sides!

Yeah she will be under me, I am always nice and polite when I have words with people and just explain why I,m doing it and what I expect of them usually works ha ha, we,ll see I can see her becoming a problem but I,ll cross that if and when I need to.

Brushing dogs teeth can be a problem, Woody would rather have eaten me that get his teeth brushed lol. I have heard of people getting good results with I think its called tartar off. Whats up with his gums ? Has he recovered from his day in the car :)

He been pretty tired the last couple of days. His gums just a bit red, maybe an ulcer again at the back but cannot see it properly. I am just so loathe to change him from what he has been eating. But it is mainly soft, he loves bones but sometimes eats to big of a piece at once so hopefully the frozen will make him slow down and chew it properly. I got lamb brisket to keep him on the same novel protein so hope it works. Most of the dental chew thingamies have wheat in them and we are grain free, but I did find one called Whimsee that is grain free. When he chewed it there was a wee bit of blood on it so something not right in there, but I do not think it is a major and want to get him chewing a bit more. I have bought him nylabone dental floss chew toy but he won't have a bar of that, he only likes chewing the soft toys with squeakers!

Oh goodness I can,t believe how much he,s like woody, he wouldn,t have a bar of a nylabone either. I got it on my vets recommendations for his teeth I ended up giving it to a neighbours dog :eek: Poor Flynny all tired, to be expected he has been through an ordeal this week what with the long drive in the car then the stress of the scan. Good idea to keep him on the same protein, don,t want that IBD to flare up. I take it you can,t see anything untoward in his gums when you look.

They a wee bit red, will have a good look when we see Mike next. I had another look after his brisket chewing and they look whiter already so we will just have to wait and see that he tolerates the bone and hopefully I can keep giving him them!

Those teeth can be tricky. Dogs just put anything into their mouths and go to town on it. Could have even poked a gum with something.

Hope you hear something back and don't have to wait for the IMS to be in.

hugs,
Sharlene and molly muffin

AWWWW Poor Flynny, not another mouth owie . :o xxxxxx

He hasn't had a good day really, panting and then straining to poop. It was not long after he had the lamb brisket so don't think that had time to affect his tummy, maybe it was the tooth cleaning chew thing:confused: anyway on our walk he did a little poop but still straining and it was very soft but not quite what you would call diarrhea. Perky as tonight when it cooled down and hungry for his dinner so hopefully just a bad poop day!

I got an email back from the radiologist about the right adrenal:

"I did the scan on Flynn. My apologies, I was not aware that Flynn had the right adrenal gland removed and only knew of the liver lesion. Hence I assumed the wedge shaped hypoechoic organ adjacent the caudal vena cava in the cranial abdomen was the right adrenal. The structure is therefore likely to be an abdominal lymph node. The shape of the right adrenal is exactly the same as the organ observed in this study.

Once again my apologies for the error. I will speak to Mike on Tuesday about this as I will not be here on Monday"

So I am not sure if that is a good or bad thing? :eek: :confused: I am getting a few questions ready to send back to them to ask more. During his surgery in November the surgeon told me the area around the previous adrenalectomy was nice and clear, so hopefully nothing is occurring there. Blardy hell, the liver was enough to worry about without having this pop up! :(

Oh Trish, I've been following your posts and so hoping you'd be getting a final "all's clear" from the scan. And now to have yet another question mark -- and to wait until Tuesday...GRRRR!! Please give Flynnie a big pat and I hope that radiologist knows he's got a whole crew of folks who want to know what the heck is going on!

Thanks Marianne, I have just finished a lengthy email which I bet you can imagine judging by the length of my usual posts here!! I sent it to the radiologist and the IMS and will await their answers on Tuesday.

Thanks for popping in, but your meant to be on holiday!! I never did get to see Dr McDreamy on this trip ;)